E09- less is more

Welcome to my fluent podcast. My name is Daniel Goodson and I really want to become a better English speaker. By producing my humble fluent podcast I hope to reach this goal.

On episode 6 l complained about the decision I had made right at the beginning of my… let’s say podcast career – or better said – language journey… I complained I had signed up only to the 50 MB plan (at Libsyn – which is my podcast hoster).

What does that mean? I can upload 50 MB per month and not more.

I will explain this to you in more detail:

The 50 MB monthly storage I have at my disposal, actually, was or still is my challenge or task: I want to produce episodes in my target language in order to get better in English. This is the way I set it up. And the 50 Mb are meant to be my goal that I will be consistent with my English study by producing this podcast because consistency is really important when it comes to learning a new language. That is a key element.

I strongly believe that – this, right here- is the right thing for me.

I complained because I had to cut several episodes before publishing them due to a lack of space. And that bothered me quite a bit! And that’s actually the reason why I came up with this strange idea – at least for a short period of time I really wanted to change things. I was over motivated. That’s why I came up with the idea of changing things quite a bit. I thought: Maybe I should upgrade my podcast space from 50 MB to 250 MB because that would enable me to increase my assignment. Subsequently, it would mean even more training. Well of course but if you look at that amount that is 5 times the amount I have now. The task would be impossible to reach!

After long consideration, I think it would be a far better idea to concentrate on the quality of the episodes rather than on the length and just leave it as it is. Others also recommended me to follow that path.

I should be focusing on smaller chunks.

That way I will definitely learn more.

Hopefully, this episode is a clear proof – Who knows?

I’m glad you took the time to listen to me. I’m your host, Daniel Goodson.

A big shout-out goes to the best Italki teacher and language enthusiast in the wold – Mario from Chile. He helped me out to rephrase the transcript of this episode in a more natural way. In Addition, he helped me with the prununciation.